Authors note:
There might be a second part to this, not sure yet as I would like some feedback as to whether or not it's any good. I hope you enjoy this short story, I came up with it after talking to a friend.
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Rachel woke up feeling excited, it was her eighteenth birthday today and she was looking forward to the party that she and Jack had planned together.
Jack was her twin, born exactly two minutes and thirty four seconds behind her, they were extremely close and shared everything, there was nothing they didn't do without talking together about it first or giving each other a nod of approval.
Being twins could lead to some problems, but overall their shared understanding of each other outweighed those a thousand times over.
She bounced out of bed and went through her morning ritual in a cheery rush, wanting to start the day as early as possible.
It was illogical as the party wasn't going to start for hours and they already had everything organised and prepared, but still she wanted to get going, so she had the quickest shower of her life, before doing her hair and makeup as quickly as she could.
She had just finished with her lippy when Katy Perry's latest track came blaring out of her bedroom's CD player, with a grin she whirled around and ran into her room, knowing immediately it was Jack who had turned on the music.
Sure enough, Jack was standing there with a huge smile on his face as she pelted into her room and lept into his arms. "Happy birthday sis." He managed to say before she almost knocked him off his feet.
"Happy birthday Jack." She squealed excitedly as he caught her around the waist and twirled her around in the air, lifting her feet off the ground and laughing boyishly.
The towel she was wearing fell loose as he twirled her and she squealed again, this time in awkwardness as she tried to grab it with one hand while still hanging onto Jacks neck with the other.
His laughter stalled and he let her feet touch the ground, stepping back as she scrabbled to get the towel back around her small but distinctly feminine curves.
Rachel gave him a scolding scowl as she clutched the towel closed, "Oi, we're not kids anymore, turn around." She huffed at him in mock anger. Knowing full well he wouldn't as they had seen each other naked all their lives.
Strangely he did ask she asked and she cocked her head to one side in puzzlement, he had been acting a bit weird around her lately and this was another example, she didn't like him being different as it upset the balance of her reality, usually she knew what he was going to do before he did.
Jack stared at the wall uncomfortably as he surreptitiously adjusted his pants, trying to make the bulge in them less obvious. "Ahem, well you better put some clothes on, I'll go make us some brekkie." He said in a slightly strained voice and headed for the door.
Rachel shrugged his oddity off and dropped the towel, walking to her wardrobe to pick out some clothing. She had a good body, slim but not skinny, pale pink skin, largish breasts that wobbled as she walked and wavy dirty blonde hair that she always kept bobbed so it only just touched the nape of her slim neck and hid the ears that she thought were a bit sticky outie.
Her party dress was already laid out, but not wanting to wrinkle it before the party even started, she threw on a pair of pink jeans shorts and a loose pale yellow scoop necked T-shirt, wiggled her feet into her favourite slip on flats and headed off to the promised breakfast.
Fairly bouncing with happiness, she entered the kitchen and cheerfully greeted the rest of her family, kissing her mum on the cheek and sticking her tongue out at her older brother as he rolled his eyes at her, David hated mornings and was always grumpy first thing, having his younger siblings so happy before he had finished his coffee grated on his nerves.
Jack turned around from the bench top where he was spreading generous globs of butter onto toast for himself and his twin, he beamed a smile at her and threw the toast at her, Rachel yelped gleefully and caught it with both hands, smearing butter all over her palms yet not caring at the mess, she took a large bite from the toast and sat down. "thanks, Jack, but you forgot the jam."
She chewed happily and waited for the expected glob of jam she was sure he was about to flick at her.
David growled menacingly at Jack, he knew the little bastard was about to start a food fight with his sister, the pair were still annoyingly childish. "Throw that jam and I'll batter you to death with the jar." His frown telling everyone that he was seriously pissed off.
"David, don't be such a grouch, it's their birthday." Their mother scolded him while shooting a warning glance at her two youngest.
Jack sighed regretfully as he jammed up his slice of toast, Rachel was too hyped up to see the warning signs and flicked a bit of her overly buttered toast at David with a giggle.
Jack saw the piece of greasy bread fly across the table in slow motion, he winced as it landed with a splat on David's tie and slid down it, leaving an oily smear in its wake.
